[SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-17 Thread MCG555
Hi there, a question to the Pros out there: If I use the "random mix" for a specific genre to play - e.g. "lounge" and I choose "random album", what defines that an album is taken into the playlist, if it contains the genre "lounge" as well as other genres? Thanks very much and kind regards - M

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-17 Thread d6jg
MCG555 wrote: > Hi there, > a question to the Pros out there: > If I use the "random mix" for a specific genre to play - e.g. "lounge" > and I choose "random album", what defines that an album is taken into > the playlist, if it contains the genre "lounge" as well as other > genres? > > Thanks

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-18 Thread d6jg
MCG555 wrote: > Not sure if I got that. > I did not give any answer to myself. > Is it the first track (nr. 1) of the album that defines the ALBUM genre, > or any track that has been choosen? An album can have multiple genres and should appear listed in LMS in all of them. If you select Random

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-18 Thread MCG555
Not sure if I got that. I did not give any answer to myself. Is it the first track (nr. 1) of the album that defines the ALBUM genre, or any track that has been choosen? Greetings from Switzerland - Markus :-) Proac Response D15, B&W Sub ASW 610, Astintrew AT2000plus, SB Touch, Metrum Oc

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-18 Thread MCG555
Ok, this meams, if I really do only want to have Genre A played, I cannot choose "Random album" for Genre A, if I don't know, if all songs in the Album contain Genre A, right? Greetings from Switzerland - Markus :-) Proac Response D15, B&W Sub ASW 610, Astintrew AT2000plus, SB Touch, Met

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-18 Thread slartibartfast
MCG555 wrote: > Ok, this meams, if I really do only want to have Genre A played, I > cannot choose "Random album" for Genre A, if I don't know, if all songs > in the Album contain Genre A, right?Do you have many albums with tracks > tagged with different genres? Sent from my Pixel 3a using Ta

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-18 Thread MCG555
I don't know. Over the years I decided to define the tagging on the song base and not (anymore) the album base. A couple of hunderets cerrtainly... Often I have chosen to play random songs and not random albums... Greetings from Switzerland - Markus :-) Loudspeakers: ProAc Response D15,

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-19 Thread d6jg
MCG555 wrote: > I don't know. Over the years I decided to define the tagging on the song > base and not (anymore) the album base. A couple of hunderets > cerrtainly... > Often I have chosen to play random songs and not random albums... Have a look at Random Seeds - it may do more what you are a

Re: [SlimDevices: SqueezeCenter] What defines the album genre?

2021-01-19 Thread MCG555
d6jg wrote: > Have a look at Random Seeds - it may do more what you are after > https://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?110023-Feature-Request-Random-Seed&highlight=Random+Seeds > > You will have to scroll through until you find where Michael implements > it but basically you create a fav